New Class Set-up

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  • Many of the instructions on how to setup for new classes are already listed within this website, this serves more as a flowchart to know what needs to be done and it what order it should be handled.

Creating a Blackboard page for a Class


Creating Class Folder on Instructor PC

  • Working on the Instructor PC, Locate the folder on the desktop that corresponds for your semester, ie. !Fall2010 or !Summer2012.
  • Within this Folder, create a class folder, following the notation IE305, as an example.
  • Now that the class folder has been created, you can copy/paste the contents of a previous class here and delete anything that can be in the sub folders, or create the sub-folders yourself. If you were to create them, name them: "Assigned labs/Camtasia Backups/Camtasia Files/Lecture Notes/Previous Semester/Student Presentations/Students/Supplementary Material/Syllabus"
  • This is where instructor notes are going to be saved before saving the PDF onto Firma.

Creating a Class Folder in the Encoder (recording) PC

  • On the Encoder PC find the semester that corresponds for your class in the desktop
  • Within this semester, create a sub-folder for your class using the annotation IE305
  • This is the folder where the Wirecast recordings are going to be saved.

Creating a Firma Folder

  • If you computer is not connected onto Firma, Go to Connect to Server and locate "afp://eocs1.engineering.iastate.edu/firma/" and use the general password.
  • On the Firma server, find the semester that corresponds to your class.
  • Once you have the correct semester, create the class folder, following the annotation IE305 (note that there is no space).
  • Within the class folder, create the sub-folder "PDF".
  • Ask the supervisor if you also need to copy/paste the same class folder onto the main Firma folder, that is, outside the class folder.
  • This is where edited videos will be exported to.

Creating an Encoder Files Folder

  • If you cannot find the Encoder Files, you will need to connect to the server "afp://woojo-desktop01.las.iastate.edu" with the general password.
  • On the Encoder Files in your desktop, find the semester that corresponds for your class.
  • In this semester, create the class folder using the annotation IE305 (note that there is no space)
  • No sub-folder within the class folder is needed.
  • This is where the Wirecast recording form the Encoder PC are going to be mirrored before editing in the control room

Working with Superflexible File Synchronizer

  • Superflex
  • When working with Superflex, you would be creating links between different servers, make sure the computer you are working on is able to connect to those servers.
  • Familiarize yourself with the servers in EncoderFiles, Firma, and EDE

Linking Instructor Notes(Instructor PC) to Firma

  • Create a Superflex synchronization from the PDF sub-folder on the Instructor PC to the PDF sub-folder in the on the Firma Server

Linking Instructor Notes(Instructor PC) to WebCT

  • Create a Superflex synchronization from the course folder on the Instructor PC to the correct semester course folder on the WebCT Server

Linking Wirecast Video (Encoder Server) to Encoder Files

  • Create a Superflex synchronization from the class folder on the Encoder PC to the class folder in the Encoder Files (Encoder Server)

-Link Firma to Blackboard (contact supervisor for this)


Once everything is created and linked, a test recording can be performed to ensure the system is working.